Harry Chan Building, Darwin

Harry Chan Building, Cavenagh Street, Harry Chan Avenue, Darwin.

Harry Chan building

Image Courtesy of: Territory Stories

The Chan Building was the eighth and last of the large government office blocks to be built in the centre of Darwin in the 1960s. It was known as Block 8 for the first ten years of its existence and was named the Chan Building after Harry Chan (1918-1969), a Chinese-Australian businessman and former mayor of Darwin around 1980. Until its demolition in September 2020, it was the last of this group of office blocks to be left standing; all the others being demolished by the late 1990s.

Source: NT Modern https://ntmodern.org/HARRY-CHAN-BUILDING